- Post date
- 24 Jul 2018
- Caption
- Here’s a demo cassette of one of the pioneering Rock Angelino bands: Los Olvidados. While there emerging out of the “Rock en Español” scene of the early 1990s, the nucleus of the band started even earlier in whole different country and context. Jorge and Eduardo Infante, along with Héctor “Tucupa” Delgado grew up in Tampico and as teenagers they aspired to be the loudest metal band.
In a 1996 interview with Spin Magazine (fancy!), Tucupa said, “Back in Mexico, we used to play deadly heavy metal…but the shock of immigration made us realize that we could find our roots in other musical currents.” Migrating to LÁ and experiencing the hardships of being immigrants and treated inhumanely or worse being forgotten altogether, radically changed the Infantes and Tucupa’s perception of life and what their music should sound.
Understanding themselves as part of a larger global community of diasporic, migrant musicians, they gathered back in LÁ to refound the band and named it Los Olvidados, an ode to the classic Luis Buñuel film, but also how they felt at the time: already forgotten by the Mexican society in which they grew up and also neglected and ignored by U.S. society.
In this early 1992 six-song demo, Los Olvidados mixed a bit of punk, metal, and ska with a ton of other rhythms learned from other musicians from the Global South such as Algerian Raï, Soukous from the Congo or Trinitarian Calypso. The band would go on to record a full-length CD in 1997. Thanks to @x_pogo64_x for sharing this pic of a rare find.
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Type
- album casette or cd cover
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- https://www.instagram.com/p/Blo_iB2BuFu/